Larry Sanger

Well, you wouldn't learn that from a neutral encyclopedia, though, right?

Because that would be a very, very opinionated sort of thing, wouldn't it?

Yes.

You would go to the article about the various alleged genocides, and maybe none of the articles would be called genocides if they were still controversial, right?

Nevertheless, one of the very first things that you would learn, as is the case in an article about the so-called Gaza genocide, is that...

Yeah, like a lot of people on the world stage think that it is actually a genocide.

It's really important to know these days, actually.

A notion of neutrality is that the resource doesn't make up your mind for you.

That's the whole point.

Yeah.

Then what we're talking about is something called methodology, even just study method or epistemology to a certain extent.

But epistemology concerns the actual definitions of knowledge and justified belief and things like that, whereas methodology concerns the actual procedures that you go through and rules that you apply.

So it's a hard question.

You have to read a lot of different sources, for example.

Just reading the assigned text is generally not enough when you're talking about difficult, controversial geopolitical topics or topics in religion or whatever sort of...

whatever sort of thing you're trying to avoid bias about.

So, yeah.

So, obviously, it's important to find the best representatives of multiple sides, try to get a lot of different opinions, just random opinions is what I have tried to do.

And then you get your own notion of bias

the lay of the land.